Friday, June 18, 2004
Take two of these and call me in the morning.
AKA give me two for the road...
Okay, all puns aside. This is an unscheduled health news update. Health Day reports "Experts See Surge in Teen Breast Implants"
Now, being the product of parochial schools from first grade on up, I suppose I could be pinned with the "sheltered" label... even though those who know what I did during highschool would testify otherwise (LOL). But, I just don't remember girls getting boob jobs when I was 18. As a single parent of 11 and 16 year old daughters I can't imagine giving either of them fake boobs for a present. The very idea is just completely foreign to me. Do you suppose it's a maternal thing? Somehow I'm thinking that Carla wouldn't say that it is.
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Okay, all puns aside. This is an unscheduled health news update. Health Day reports "Experts See Surge in Teen Breast Implants"
The number of 18-year-old girls getting breast implants has tripled in the last two years, according to experts, and their parents seemingly approve because they give the implants as graduation presents.
The New York Post, citing figures from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, reported that the number of girls that age who got cosmetic implants went from 3,872 in 2002 to 11,326 last year.
"There is a trend in which parents are giving implants as a gift, including as a graduation present," Dr. Stephen Greenberg, who practices in Woodbury, L.I., and New York City, told the Post.
Now, being the product of parochial schools from first grade on up, I suppose I could be pinned with the "sheltered" label... even though those who know what I did during highschool would testify otherwise (LOL). But, I just don't remember girls getting boob jobs when I was 18. As a single parent of 11 and 16 year old daughters I can't imagine giving either of them fake boobs for a present. The very idea is just completely foreign to me. Do you suppose it's a maternal thing? Somehow I'm thinking that Carla wouldn't say that it is.
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